Featuring:
John Casteen
Free UnionJohn Casteen's Free Union was published by the University of Georgia Press in spring 2009. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, where he serves on the editorial staff. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Sweet Briar College.
Genre:Poetry
Temple Cone
No LonelinessTemple Cone is the author of No Loneliness, winner of the 2009 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. He is an associate professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Genre:Poetry
Kate Gray
Another Sunset We SurviveKate Gray's first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. It follows chapbooks Bone Knowing and Where She Goes. Gray teaches at Clackamas Community College.
Genre:Poetry
Mary Crockett Hill
A Theory of EverythingMary Crockett Hill is the author of A Theory of Everything (winner of the Autumn House Prize) and If You Return Home with Food (winner of the Bluestem Award). Her poetry has appeared in American Poetry: The Next Generation.
Genre:Poetry


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